Recent content by Gary R. Smith

I think the wider shot of the Amaryllis may not be a stacked macro. I don't seem to have a file that shows that crop and the posted image has no exif. This usually means that I cropped it with Paintshop Pro. Thanks Pete. It was shot in February of 2023 with my a7R3 with the 28-200 Tamron on...

Here's a couple more...

Here's a jewel setting (with jewel). You pinch the brass piece with a set of tweezers and the two legs (on the right at about 4 o'clock) come free from the undercut and then the brass piece pivots up to the left allowing the purple jewel to be removed/replaced. I think this was shot through...

I'm not sure that I have ever mastered the whole stacking problem. Affinity Photo has stacking as an option when your opening a set of images. I usually use a focus rail and try to increment my way from front to real but that ends up with me wondering if I'm not actually changing the...

And a chandlery a short way down the towpath... :)

It's always something... :oops:

I don't think you're repeating yourself Shaun, I don't recall seeing those before.

No hood. I think there was a version that had an integrated hood? Short Sand beach was shot with the 35/2. The egret was shot from the car (as was the red algae and the water scene). I had also just gotten a roll of Kodak Gold 200 back that I seemed to like better - of course it was 120 shot...

We don't have anything that old over here.

I don't miss airport travel.

Looks like the brick layers used a plumb line and the carpenters did not... :)

I like my Panasonic mFT cameras and you're right the OM-1 is a daunting beast. I have it setup to shoot birds and I never use it for anything else. It's funny, I got rid of my LX100 because I thought I'd be happier with the GX85 which is about the same size but which supports interchangeable...

How do you like your new camera as compared to the LX100?

I stumbled on the whole narrow boating thing as a guy that I went to high school with has several brothers and they spend time in the UK traipsing around the canal network. As a result of that I've watched a couple of YT vids shot while on the waterways. My friend's brother purchased a boat and...

35mm posted here.